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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 102O
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SALVOS OF APPLAUSE GREET BRYAN IN OPENING FIGHT
IN CONVENTION FOR DRY PLANK IN DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
When Glass Completes Reading of Platform and Moves for Adoption, Nebraska's Bourbon Warhorse Bounces From His Chair With His Minority
Report and Contest of Work of Resolutions Committee Is Started Woman Supports Commoner With Dramatic Appeal.
AUDITORIUM. San Francisco, July
2. Delegates and crowds were
Blower than ever In arriving for
the fifth day's session. The hour of
10 o'clock came and went with hardly
a handful of delegates on the floor
and with great empty patches in the
galleries.
Despite the trouble that was brew
ing behind the scenes, the delegates
themselves seemed good-natured as
they gathered on the convention
floor. Meantime the band, the organ
and the women's trio joined in
"Smiles."
One of the plans under considera
tion in the back stage conference of
leaders was a suggestion that all
rinhjitn nn the nlatform be limited to
three hours and that balloting for aj
seven minutes after It began. At the
concluding words the band started up
again and the delegates stood and cut
loose with another crash of applause.
Then there were some more cries for
Bryan and clamoring for the fight
over adoption to begin.
Bryan Opens Fight.
Senator Glass moved that the plat
form be adopted as read and "W. J.
Bryan bounced out of "his chair on
the platform to begin his fight for
his minority planks. He was greeted
with a minute of cheering, in which
very few delegates took prominent
part. Opening his speech diplomat
ically with praise for the platform, he
declared it one of the strongest ever
adopted by a political party. He
added that whatever difference of
presidential candidate should follow
its conclusion. There was bjhi in
jection, however, and the consulta
tion continued without immediate
fruit.
Applnnse Greets Leaders.
At 10:27 Chairman Robinson, Sena
tor Glass and Mr. Bryai appeared to
gether on the platform and there as
a scattered patter of applause. Some
cheers for Bryan followed from cor
ners of the galleries and there were
a lot of Impatient demands that the
convention get under way.
At 10:33. Senator Robinson pounded
for order and the hall quieted down
very quickly. ,
The prayer was by the Rev. Josla.1
Sibley of San Francisco.
A verse of "The Star-spangled Ban
ner" served to key even higher the
tense expectancy of the crowd and
at the conclusion there was another
outburst of impatience mingled with
cries for Bryan.
Amid more cheers. Senator Bobln
son presented Senator Glass and the
reading of the platform began.
Delegates and galleries listened at
tentively and interrupted the open
ing references to President Wilson
with handclapping. At the point
where the platform declares for the
league of nations Senator Glass put
the emphasis on the word "the" and
the convention stood up and cheered
for a minute while the band struck
up another rollicking tune.
;lan Reads 50 'Words a Minnie.
Senator Glass began reading at the
rate of 56 words a minute. Without
interruption for applause the read
ing would continue an hour and 40
minutes. The advance estimate of
time likely to be required for the
actual presentation of the committee's
majority report was something more
than two hours.
When the direct declaration or
ratification of the treaty was reached
in the reading there was another
demonstration.
Then he finished the league plank.
Senator Glass departed from his
manuscript to say:
"So much for the league of na
tions, and my voice, I regret to say.
Is impaired from fighting for that
declaration."
The remark was answered by ap
plause from some of the delegates
and spectators.
Nearly every plank got a little
round of applause when it was read
but the declarations in the platform
were not news to many of the dele
gates and for the most part they be
came restless before the reading was
half completed. The monotony of the
proceedings apparently was too tame
for them and they showed in many
ways that they were anxious for the
floor fight to begin.
Suffrage Finnic Cheered. . I
Senator Glass worked hard at the
reading and paused many times to
wipe the perspiration from his face.
"It's a hot job," he remarked. Just
after he had read the agriculture
plank.
"It's a hot platform," 6houted a
delegate and there was a ripple of
laughter and cheering. So. far the
convention was going smoothly
enough.
One of the biggest demonstrations
was given by the suffrage plank,
calling on the legislatures of three
southern democratic states to ratify
the suffrage amendment. Led by the
women delegates, virtually every one
on the convention floor got to his feet
and cheered, while the standards of
Tennessee, Florida and North Caro
lina, the three states specifically
named in the appeal for ratification,
were carried to the speaker's stand
and held high up before the dele
gates. Soon nearly every other standard
was brought up and put into the
cluster, while the band played "Oh,
You Beautiful Doll."
There was a disagreement over both
the New Jersey and Louisiana stand
ards, but after a little shoving and
tussling, both of them were carried
out of place and put with the others
up in front.
Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby of New
York got the Louisiana standard
started forward over the protest of,
some of the Louisiana delegates, but
after she had carried it a little way a
man took it and put it into place with
the big assemblage around the plat
form. A parade, in which practically all
of the standards joined, was organ
ized when the demonstration had been
going for five minutes. The march
ers tramped around the hall to the
tune of "There'll Be a Hot Time in
the Old Town Tonight," and then the
organ dropped into "Smiles," and
most of those on the floor took up
tne words of the song.
It was a 13-minute demonstration
when it had concluded, but the suf
frage leaders declined to regard it as
a bad omen.
When order had been restored. Sen
ator Glass again took up the reading.
Even Things Omitted Meant.
There was some more hurrahing a
few minutes later, when Senator
Glass, at the end of the long list of
things the party proposed to do for
women, said in another aside to those
near the platform:
"If wo have omitted anything, -we
mean that, too.
Chairman Glass read the Mexican
plank to some applause and when he
came to the Irish plank there was a
preliminary demonstration by the
Irish sympathizers among the dele
gates and in the galleries.
"I'll have to read it in my own
brogue," said Chairman Glass to the
accompaniment of a roar of applause
and cheers.
When the applause had died down,
he added: "That's the American
brogue "
There was another wave of ap
plause to that.
The plank merely expressing sym
pathy for the aspirations of Ireland
for self-government, made no men
tion of recognition of the Irish re
public, and was read and, passed with
out any great demonstration of ap
proval or disapproval.
Shouts of "Okeh" and "Good" an
swered the reading of the plank of
Armenia.
Heading Speeded Vp.
Then when Chairman Glass struck
some of the routine planks he hurried
over them like a congressional read
ing clerk disposing of a president's
message three lines at a time. The
audience caught the humor of the
burst of speed and returned with
shouts of "go to it," and "more speed,"
as the chairman tumbled the sen
tences over one another.
The reading of the platfoTm was
concluded at 12:47, two hours and I
opinion there had been in the plat
form committee had been over the
means and not the end to be accom
plished, but it was one of the pre
rogatives of a democrat to speak his
own views.
I am glad to come to you and say
that I am ready to indorse almost all
that is written there." he continued,
and an uproar of approval and disap
proval Interrupted him.
Make it all, make it an," yeuea
several of the delegates.
Under the rules, Mr. Bryan was re
quired to read all of his proposed
planks before the discussion of any
of them could begin. The bone dry
plank he presented first and then fol
lowed the declarations he naa aranea
for publication of a government bul
letin, for -dealing with profiteers and
to put the party on record as oppos
ing compulsory military training in
times of peace.
League Proviaoa Cheered.
When he came to the last of his
five planks which dealt with the
league of nations. Mr. Bryan prefaced
its reading by saying that nothing
contained in it was intended to con
flict with the majority platform's
words of praise for the president. The
peace treaty, he added, was "better
than anyone had a right to expect,"
considering the circumstances with
which the president had to deal.
Some "noes" interrupted the read
ing of the Bryan league plank, but
its provisions also got some applause.
It demanded an amendment to the
constitution for ratification of treat
ties by a majority vote of the senate.
When Mr. Bryan finished reading
his planks he sat down and W.
Bourke Cockran of New York, an
other veteran of many democratic
conventions, was recognized to also
present a minority report. He said
Mr. Bryan had been inadequate in
his description of the efforts of the
platform committee to write a great
platform.
Wet Issue Rained.
Mr. Cackran's minority report was
a wet plank. He told the convention
that- had Mr. Bryan consented to let
the committee's report stand, he
doubted whether the wets would
have raised the question.
"But Bryan and evasion are irre
concilable within the same hall,"
he added, "and now that the issue has
been raised, thank heaven the con
vention can no longer dodge it."
A roar of cheering greeted the lan
guage of the plank which declared
for manufacture and home consump
tion of cider, light wines and beer.
Just as the reading was finished,
someone upset a glass of water on
the speaker's table and it went down
the neck of the official stenographer.
Edward L. Doheny of California
was the next to bring in a minority
plank. It was in part the Irish
plank for which an' unsuccessful
fight had been waged by organized
Irish sympathizers in the committee,
but as read by Mr. Doheny it did not
contain a declaration for recognition
of the Irish republic.
Debate la Limited.
In presenting the minority plank
of soldier relief, Tom Lyons of Okla
homa, declared the division on its
adoption in the committee had been
so close that it took three roll calls
before it was certain that it had been
defeated. While the minority propo
sitions were being read the leaders
nnnftrrtfl and agreed on a plan to
liroif Hnhatn to three hours and a
h a 1 t
Chairman Robinson presented the
.n-rarnxRment to the convention for
annroval and although there were
many cries of "cut it down," and one
riniRirara veiled, "cut out the three
hnirrs." unanimous consent for the
agreement was refused by a chorus
nf nhlections. but on motion of Sena
tor Glass, the rules were suspended
and the three-hour-and-a-half plan
a creed to.. Then W. J. Bryan was
recognized to begin trgument on his
proposals. He was allotted an hour
under the convention's agreement,
but said he would yield a large part
of that time to others supporting
him.
Bryan Arouses Cheers.
Beginning his argument with an
ai-D-nmeiit in suDDort of the ISth
amendment, Mr. Bryan soon got the
convention to cheering. Lvery demo
cratic state, he said, had ratified the
amendment and everyone recognized
that the "liquor traffic is dead, never
to be resurrected
"The only question is whether we
shall recognize it as dead," he con
tinued, "or allow it to lie out on the
ground uncovered. Decency requires
that a eornse be put out of -sight
The liquor interests, said Mr.
Bryan, were not trying to reopen the
question, but now had come down to
advocating wine and beer for home
consumption only. He argued that
to remain silent on the subject would
leave open the possibility of change
In the law to increase .the alcoholic
content.
"I want to leave no opening for
misunderstanding or quibble," he
said. "So I have put into my plank
the provision that there shall be no
relaxation of the law. What we hate
is alcohol, and we hate it whether we
find it in whisky, in wine or in beer.
They tell you thai wine is a harm
less drink, but you will find that
through the ages it has been wine
that has cursed mankind.
Biblical References Used.
the profiteering plank he offered
and which, he said, could not get into
the republican platform because
"nearly all the profiteers were there
in the convention galleries."
The plank now was offered to the
democrats, he added, in order to drive
out of the party any profiteers who
might remain in it.
The plank - against universal mili
tary training also was argued very
briefly by' the speaker and then he
turned to his league declaration.
"I want the constitution changed."
he said, "so we can get out of
war as easily as we can get into war."
We fought the war to establish the
great principle of democracy, the
principle of majority rule. If we de
clare here for ratification of the
treaty with reservations that a ma
jority of the senators agree on, the
republicans will Join us in that dec
laration or else we will take most of
the republican party away.
Bouquet Given Commoner.
"Isn't it better to take this stand
which will Insure acceptance of the
league of nations, which the peo
ple want, and put the banner of prog
ress into the hands of Woodrow Wil
son to carry forward?"
At the close of the speech, the ap
plause swelled up again as Mr. Bryan
leaned smiling over the front of the
platform and received a large bouquet
of peonies sent up by Mrs. George E.
Hull of Lincoln, Neb., his home town.
The' demonstration lasted only a
fraction of a minute, however, and
Richmond Pearson Hobson of Ala
bama was presented to support the
Bryan dry plank. Hobson got into the
convention on a proxy, although ear
lier in the day Senator Reed of Mis
souri had left for home because he
could not get on the convention floor
with an alternate's proxy.
Hobson Stirs lTP Rumpus.
Hobson stirred up a rumpus when
he charged that there was on foot, a
"conspiracy" against the constitution.
In the center of the hall Representa
tive Sabath of Illinois jumped to his
feet and shouted "you are saying
something that is not true," and
hisses mingled with the applause. The
chairman got order, but the disturb
ance started up again when a moment
later the speaker shouted that those
who did not like the constitution
should leave the country.
Mrs. Peter Olesen of Minnesota was
the next speaker to be called by Mr.
Bryan in support of his programme.
She said she spoke in the name of the
motherhood of America in supporting
the dry declaration.
"I am told." she said, "that Some
where in a lodge room in this build
ing there is a coffin. I wonder whether
that coffin, is prepared for the liquor
interests or for the democratic party.
For if you put in this wet plank, you
might as well get the coffin ready.
It was not the liquor interests, but
the Non-partisan league, she said, that
recently defeated Representative Vol
stead, author of the Volstead act, for
re-election in Minnesota-
Dramatic Appeal Made.
Sir Oliver Lodge recently has
passed over this country," she con
tinued, "holding communication with
departed spirits. But from the smell
of the breaths of some of the men
I've met here in San Francisco, I
think they have been in communica
tion with the ghosts, too, and have
been holding converse with John
Barleycorn."
In a dramatic emotional appeal
which got the convention again to
its feet, Mrs. Oleson asked that God
should help her in the fight she was
making for it was for the sake of
her child that she wa fighting.
"Let it never be said," she cried,
"that the democratic party thinks
more of its appetites than of the chil
dren ' of the land. God speed the
right."
"God speed the right," repeated Mr.
Cockran, arising to reply."
"With that invocation the last
speaker concluded and with that in
vocation I begin. We have heard a
great deal here that was highly In
teresting and picturesque and ex
travagant. But it is a peculiar thing
in history that most of what is bad
has been conceived by people who
were good, by ill-digested efforts to
coerce people in their daily lives.
Word Prohibition Abhorred.
"I am opposed to the word prohibi
tion. I abhor it. It is the word you
will find chalked up in all the peni
tentiaries. If it is necessary to have
prohibition and to force the people to
do what they do not want to do. then
I say they are not fit for self-government
and are ready for submission
to a monarchy.
"The question is whether in an ef
fort to uproot a fancied evil we are
going to overturn the whole system
and foundation of government."
"There were really only two theo
ries of government," said the speaker,
"that of democracy, which rested on
trust and confidence in human virtues,
and that of autocracy, which rested
on coercive measures to curb the
distrusted popular faculties.
Dry Declared Coercive.
"Substitute for our democratic faith
the coercion that holds a club over
people to make them good," he con
tinued, "and you have destroyed the
only condition of society under which
democracies must exist.
"This amendment isn't enforced
now and it can't be. It may be en
forced in some sections where no
amendment was necessary just as the
14th amendment is enforced in some
northern states where there is no
negro question."
While Cockran was speaking. Bryan
sat smiling in a great plush chair
close behind him, evidently enjoying
the flow of the New Yorker's oratory.
The crowd enjoyed it, too, and
answered him again and again with
thunders of applause.
"If a man in Oregon can by his
vote regulate what I shall drink in
New York," said the speaker, "then he
can do the same thing with what I
shall eat and what I shall wear. And
that is not a just government."
Delegates Applaud Sfw Yorker.
Hundreds of delegates got up and
have established a republic by the in
telligent methods of peace and they
submit their case to the judgment of
the world. Shall we say to the Irish
people that we are not going to
recognize their intelligent and peace
ful methods, but are going to force
them to take the sword and kill in
order to win the liberty they are
bound to have?"
While the debate was in progress
an attempt was made to get an agree
ment for a recess for dinner as soon
as tho platform had been voted on.
The McAdoo people were inclined not
to agree to it.
Support Is Assured.
Charles F. X. O'Brien of Jersey City,
N. J., another speaker for the Irish
plank, assured the convention that
although his state was forced to dis
agree with the majority on several
subjects, the New Jersey democrats
were democrats first and last and
would support the platform adopted
and the candidate nominated.
His speech was followed by another
round of cheering, while the band
played a modley of Irish melodies,
leading off with "My Wild Irish
Rose."
Senator "Walsh, of Massachusetts,
who had led the unavailing fight for
the Irish plank In committee, took
the stand to conclude the argument.
"Circumstances connected with the
fight of the Irish people for free
dom," he said, "require that there be
something more than a mere expres
sion of sympathy. No word spoken
during the war so thrilled the op- j
pressed people of the world as the j
statement that America was in the
war to apply the principle of self-
determination.
Irish Declared Deserving;.
"Is there a principle of self-determination?
If there is, where on tne
face of God's earth should that prin
ciple be applied if not in Ireland,
where we found the only English
speaking people in all the vorld that
is fighting for a government of their
own."
"If there 'was to be na more war,"
said Senator Walsh, "then it was only
by . peaceable means that the prin
ciple of self-determination could be
applied."
The Irish argument concluded, Mr.
Lyons took the platform to argue for
his plank on boldier relief. It pro
vided for appointment of a commis
sion to study the question of "fair
and Just cor: pensation," for ex-service
men.
He said the plank lost out In com
mittee by a majority of on, 26 sup
porting it to 27 opposing.
"It is said," the speaker continued,
"that it will take a lot of money out
of the treasury. But we are not asking
for one cent except for the expenses
of this commission and then if it is
decided that compensation ought to
be paid, that question can be decided
when it comes up.
Soldier Aid Requested.
"A party that goes before the
people without declaring against com
pulsory, military training and saying
that we've got money for that but
haven't got money to compensate ex-
service men who may have, had ex
traordinary loss because of the war
will not be in the most logical posi
tion in the world."
He said it was not proposed to
settle the debt to the war veterans
by money payment, but that his plank
only would give a hearing to those
who might be in need because of their
sacrifices.
K. C. Murchie, democratic national
committeeman from New Hampshire
joined in support of the minority com
pensation plank.
He said that most of those who
served in the war were able to take
care of themselves, but that there
were some who were in need.
cheered with the e-allprifR wnn tha
"If you can t get enough alcohol i oration came to an end. It seemed
to make you drunk why should you , that there waB a majority up. but
want alcohol at all? Some tell you i even the wet leaders doubted whether
that if you pass my plank some peo- a roncan would show such enthu
ple will leave the party. That s true. siasm for the wet cause. A large
But while you may lose some you'll part of the demonstration seemed to
bring in a number infinitely greater k- n,,,ni,,i trihnt. tn, .i
and when they come they'll come out j nf the veteran New York nr.tnr
Captain Hobson was one of those who
of love for the principles for which
we have declared.
As he worked into his speech the
Nebraskan mixed many Biblical ref
erences with his rounded rhetorical
periods. His full voice filled the hall
and he got the galleries and some of
the delegates going into longer and
longer bursts of applause as he went
on.
When he prepared to turn to the
other planks he had presented there
were protests from the galleries and
demands that he go on.
"No," he replied, while the crowd
cheered, "but I'll come back to that
after a while."
The plank for a national bulletin
to publish official news, he declared,
would put the party on record as
favoring "light and not darkness."
Many of the newspapers, he argued,
were controlled by predatory niter
ests, while others erred unintention
ally through the influence of adver
tisers.
Briefly he presented the merits of
shook his hand and congratulated him
on the speech.
A debate on the Irish plank began
as soon as the convention had settled
down again for business. Thomas J.
Spellacy, Connecticut's member of the
platform committee, took charge of
the fight and introduced Representa
tive Augustine Lonergan of that state.
Anchoring his argument to President
Wilson's principle of self-determination.
Representative Lonergan de
clared that to do leas than recognize
the right or full self-determination in
Ireland would be to throw overboard
the teachings of the party's leader.
Irish Cause Taken Up.
T. J. Duffy of East Liverpool. O..
took up the argument for the minor
ity Irish plank declaring that it
seemed to have become apparent
that it was impossible for Ireland to
win its independence by the sword.
"But they have given to the world
Bryan Again Takes Floor.
He added that he was opposed to a
cash bonus and thought that some
other method ougat to be worked
out for those deserving relief.
With 20 minutes of his hour re
mainlng, Mr. Bryan again took the
platform to carry home the battle
for his minority planks. The crowd
yelled again when they saw his fa
miliar figure reappear at the speak
er s table, but they soon quieted
down.
bpeaxing lor his plank for a na
tional bulletin, the Nebraskan said
ne naa only lacked one vote of a
majority in the committee. The vir
tue of publication suggested, he said,
would be that the people could get
unbiased news "that would be worth
IIO.OOO.OOO in a presidential ca
paign and that would prevent Wall
street from building a fence of green-
DacKs around the White House.
Briefly he reviewed his arguments
for the profiteering plank and that
opposing universal military training.
Coming to the league of nations
again, he told the convention that no
one had made more speeches than he
for ratification of the treaty with
out .reservations, but that ratification
without reservations was impossible.
Treaty Provisions Praised.
Shame on the man," he continued
who talks of making his party
question when the world is on fire,
Who shall give a guaranty that the
world will not drift back into the
war while we are debating reserva
tions?
Praising provisions of the treaty,
he declared the path toward world
peace had been cleared by the pro
visions for disarmament, opening dip
lomatic. negotiations and investiga
tions of international differences.
"They will never be able to erase
from the pages of history." he con
tinued, "the name of Woodrow Wil
son, who gave these great principles
to the world. You can t call me the
enemy of Woodrow Wilson. Why, it
was my peace plank he took to Paris
and I have done all I could to help
him get it ratified. If I could obtain
its ratification and let him have the
credit of it, I'd gladly walk up to the
scaffold and die for such a cause.
The speech fired the hall again
and when the Nebraskan asked how
much time he had left, delegates and
galleries joined in demanding that, he
go on.
Crowd Whoops for Bryan.
"Take an hour! Take all the time
you want!" the crowd yelled, while It
whooped it up again for Bryan.
"No." he said, taking a drink
water. "I must turn to our domestic
questions.
A storm of protest from the wets
interrupted the speaker as he referred
to those who wanted to bring back
the dramshop
"Be fair!" yelled many of the dele
gates, and Mr. Bryan replied when
partial order had been restored:
"If any member of the New York o
New Jersey delegation or any othe
delegation that is wet really is glaa
that the saloon is gone. I want him
to stand up so that I can see him.
A woman in the New York deleea
tion was the first to arise in response
and in a minute large sections of the
delegates were on their feet cheering
and taunting tne speaker.
"And I voted ror you, too!" yelled
one of those standing.
Tannts and Applause Mingle,
"Yes, and if you're sorry that you
voted for me and are going to leave
"-j " . . . . vuicu w ... v c- . . r iw ,c
a noble lesson," he continued. "They I me because. I stand for the home
against the saloon, then 111 get two
in your place," replied Mr. Bryan.
Taunts and protests mingled with
an outburst of vociferous applause, as
the speech was concluded with an
oratorical picture of the benefits that
would come to the world through
prohibition. Again and again the
Nebraskan came to the front of the
platform, and bowed as the bedlam
kept up. A parade soon was organ
ized on the convention floor, the Texas
standard being the first to get into
motion. Washington, Oklahoma and
others followed, and then more than
a score were bunched in front of the
speakers' stand. The old "We want
Bryan!" which has been heard in
every democratic convention sine
1896, was about the only distinguish
able yell in the great sea of sound.
There was a real fight over the
California standard, and in the end it
was torn to pieces. A woman, borne
on the shoulders of men, made off
with a part of the state name and was
carried along to the speakers' stand.
The Alabama standard also was
smashed to tatters and there were
lesser scraps over other emblems. At
the height of the excitement a woman
dressed in a Grecian costume of white
to symbolize purity got to the top of
the speakers' platform and set the
demonstrators wild again.
Turmoil Oblivious to Chairman.
The turmoil had been on for ten
minutes and still was going loud and
strong when Senator Robinson tried
to get order. The cries of "Bryan!
Bryan!" would not be quieted.
Five minutes of work with the
gavel had restored some semblance
of order when the avalanche of sound
broke loose again at the appearance
in front of the platform of a woman
delegate bearing the fragments of the
Alabama state banner. When it had
continued 20 minutes In Jill the dem
onstration was roaring along almost
totally oblivious to the efforts of the
chairman to stem it. At last he de
clared he would clear the galleries
unless they quieted down. That got
results, and after 23 minutes of dem-
nstrating. the dry enthusiasts let the
business of the convention go on.
Senator Glass, in charge of the de
fense of the platform as presented
from the committee, then presented
Bainbridge Colby, floor manager of
the administration forces in the con
vention. He was greeted with cheers
and began his address by a tribute to
he ability and past achievements of
Mr. Bryan.
Emulation Is Chara-ed.
"I am not very much concerned
with the idea for a government owned
newspaper, he continued. "We've got
one or two of those things. We've got
the Congressional Record, for in
stance, which somebody has described
as the most widely unread newspaper
of the country.
"With regard to the liquor question
suppose that all of you will vote
your convictions. But I do want to
say a word about -Mr. Bryan s new
plan about the league of nations.
For some time Mr. Bryan was for the
treaty and then he began to emulate
the republicans and talk about reser
vations. They are for the treaty, too,
but they all have reservations in their
pockets.
Replying to Mr. Bryan' declaration
that a stand for an immediate com
promise ratification would pull the
bulk of the republican party over into
he democratic fold, the secretary said
that the democrats had been trying
to no something like that for a long
time.
Ana Mr. Bryan." he added, "cer
tainly has been as successful as any
one else at that.
Senate Chance Held Gone.
The senate, said Mr. Colby, had had
Its day in court with the treatv and
that day had lasted for nine months.
so that some of them apparently had
suffered rrom "intellectual lockjaw."
xne question passes. ' he continued,
to a higher tribunal. The senate has
had its say and for the present we
do not care to hear from senators
any more as such. We want to thrash
mis matter out in a new way and a
new field.
The democratic party is for i
league of nations without reserva
tions that impair its integrity. Of
course we are because when America
goes into the thing, it goes in hon
estly. It goes in 100 per cent."
At that the crowd let go again and
when the secretary remarked that he
must conclude, the cry of "go on, go
on rang tnrougn tne Dig nail.
ine repuoncan party," the secre
tary continued, "is saying with ' its
tongue in its cheek that we should
take this league, but should take it
on their terms. They are trying to
take away from the democratic party
tne distinction of this great achieve
ment."
Tribute Paid President.
Concluding with a tribute to the
president, the administration leader
got another rising demonstration
from the delegates and galleries. The
District of Columbia standard led the
floor demonstration which presently
had swept, virtually all of the state
standards again to the front of the
hall.
The Massachusetts emblem was the
last to join In the assemblance of
state standards, and as it at las
was carried forward there was an
other great outburst of approbation.
Rollicking music by the band got the
bearers of the standards dancing and
in a little while the whole row was
bobbing up and down in harmony
with the band. The secretary of state
again came to the front of the stage
to acknowledge the applause and
then senator Robinson began to
pound for the restoration of quiet.!
The demonstration had lasted ten
minutes before the business of the
convention could be resumed.
Wilson Foes Scored.
Taking up the burden of the ad
ministration's fight for the platform,
Senator Glass began his speech with
an allusion to Mr. Bryan's declara
tion mac ne would De wining to go
to the scaffold if be could obtain
ratification of the treaty wlthou
reservations.
"It is not against men who are
willing to make such a sacrifice tha
I object," Senator Glass continued,
"but the men I do object to are those
who would go to the door of a sick
chamber and knock and knock and
knock there in a disturbing way.
"Our quarrel is not with Mr. Biyan
for what he proposes, but for the
method that he proposes and because
he joins forces with these enemies
of Woodrow Wilson .who were so re
lentless that they were willing to
go to his sick chamber and take
witness of his body as to the qualities
of his great mind."
Glass Upholds Prohibition.
"Talk about amending the consti
tution when women and children are
dying and half tha world is aflame.
WHy, Susan B. Anthony and her asso
ciates and successors have ' tried for
more than 30 years to amend . the
constitution." 1
Senator Glass protested against
what he said was an attempt to take
the credit for the league of na
tions away from the president and
give it to Henry Cabot Lodge.
Turning to Mr. Bryan's prohibition
programme the speaker referred to
Mr. Bryan's statement that there was
an attempt to leave the corpse of
the liquor traffic unburied.
"Not at all." he continued. "But
what we do propose is that we shall
not drag that corpse from one end of
the country to the other.
"Mr. Bryan assumes to speak for
the home, but I challenge his right
to be any more the representative of
the home than I am. I voted for pro
hibition long before Mr. Bryan ever
did."
Irish Question Held Complex.
Senator Glass said he saw no rea
son to put into the platform any
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declaration on either side of the pro
hibition question, though if he were
to say anything on the subject he
would declare that the saloon was
gone forever. It was 4eft out by
the committee, he said, because it was
not desired to becloud the issue of
peace.
"The question of Ireland," contin
ued the committee chairman, "is a
complex and perplexing question. The
democratic party has been long in
sympathy with the Irish people. But
we are obliged to recognize our in
ternational obligations and say what
we say within the comity that exists
between nations. And with that in
mind what we have written in the
platform was the best that we could
do.
"As to the bonus, which we very
carefully and gravely considered, as
secretary of the treasury I became
intimately enough acquainted with
the finances of the country to realize
that if ever we embarked upon this
thing it would bring us into such a
serious situation as to Jeopardize our
securities."
Secretary Wants Money.
Senator Glass reverted to the
league Issue to say that he could not
agree with Bryan's declaration that
ho was willing to remit the ten bil
lions owed this nation abroad if that
would establish universal peace.
"We purchased peace with'the blood
ofour soldiers," the speaker continued.
"I am not willing that a single dollar
of what other nations owe us shall
be given up."
He added that while he was secre
tary of the treasury that proposition
came to him and he wrote a letter
which left no doubts of where this
country would stand as long as he
was in charge of the treasury.
Because some newspapermen are
liars, he continued, Mr. Bryan wanted
to insult all newspapermen by putting
into the platform a declaration for an
official newspaper.
Taking up Mr. Bryan's profiteering
argument. Senator Glass eaid he could
not see why the profiteering plank
was presented "unless one man thinks
he can write into the platform by
himself a provision which the com
mittee rejected." .
"Vote! Vote!" la Cried.
"He wants to drive the profiteers
Into the republican party," continued
the committee chairman. "I want to
put them in jail "
The crowd applauded the speech
many times and gave the speaker a
special rising demonstration of ap
proval when he wound up a discus
sion of the committee proceedings by
shouting:
"The only thing approaching in
timidation in that committee was the
threat of Mr. Bryan to meet me up
here on tho speakers' stand, and
here I am.'"
Compulsory military training, said
Senator Glass, was not an issue and
the committee had elt it was not
the time to make it an issue "and
serve notice on our enemies that even
before the war is over we are will
ing to go into a state of demoraliza
tion." "I am opposed to compulsory mil
itary training, in time of peace." he
continued, "but I am in favor of com
pulsory training in time of war."
When the senator asked what else
the opponents of the platform had
proposed, there were yells of "Vote!
Vote!" and Senator Glass replied:
"All right; if you want it that
way." picked up his notes and retired
amid applause.
Bone Dry Plank Defeated.
That ended the debate and a vote
on the Bryan bone dry substitute
plank was ordered.
As state after state announced a
majority against the dry plank there
was repeated cheering and announce
ment of the result of the ballot was
the signal for a renewed jollification
by all of those who had hoped to see
the Nebraskan turned down by the
convention.
The next majority plank to come up
for action was the dry proposals by
Richmond Pearson Hobson. He asked
for a roll call, but the request was
not sufficiently seconded and the
plank was voted down in a great roar
of disapproval.
For the wine and beer plank pro
posed by Mr. Cockran of New York,
there seemed to be an almost unani
mous demand for the ayes and noes
and a roll call on it besaa.
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